HD Link for Wii

This is a great addition if you have a Wii hooked up to a television with component video inputs. And it's half the price of what you would pay for a similar cable at retail stores.

What really impressed me was how the cable is constructed. Most of the cable is a single thicker cable, and only the end that hooks on to the TV is broken out into the separate video and audio hookups. So you don't have 5 separately wrapped wires running all the way from the Wii to the back of the television. Makes for a neat, organized installation.

If you want to hook up your Wii via component video, this is the way to go.

I just upgraded to a 32" 720p Bravia and decided to upgrade my Wii to component video from the composite video. However, I have failed to see any noticeable difference in quality by switching to component video (I doubt if it has anything to do with this cable particularly). Please note that I have indeed changed my Wii settings to progressive, so it is not due to my ignorance that I don't see a difference in quality. I just think that if one is using 480 then either interlaced or progressive appears almost the same and so it does not perhaps make much sense to change to this cable. I decided not to return this cable though since I think it would have cost me the shipping and so no point on saving just a few bucks.

As for this specific cable, I think that the quality is fine and I did not find any thing wrong with the cable itself per se. Therfore, if you indeed want to go down the component video road, I think it does not make much sense to use a more expensive cable from Nintendo itself.

This cable do the perfect job !


My Wii is a PAL version, and I use this cable to plug it on a NTSC TV, and the quality is better with this cable as the regular one.

Well I hooked up my son's Wii at his grandparents' house, but had one problem, they were using all the normal av cable slots, so I had to unhook their DVD player just to play the Wii every time. I ordered these because they used component slots which were not in use. So problem solved. However additionally they are better quality cables with a higher refresh rate which is great. Super easy.

This link is supposed to allow the user to display the information from a Wii in widescreen without data corruption or interference. I have no complaints, it does what it is meant to do. The cable seems to be high quality, nice and heavy insulation and gold contacts to boot.

Don't forget that if you get this cable and set it up with a widescreen tv there are a couple of things you have to do to get it to work right. First, you have to set the screen settings in the wii menu for 1) widescreen and 2) high def signal, then you have to set the picture size or aspect ratio of that specific input for the correct dimensions.

This should have been what Nintendo packaged in with the Wii. Since the vast majority of people who have and use a Wii are going to be under 30 then odds are they would have a tv that is less than 10 years old and by virtue of that fact most Wii users are going to have widescreen t.v.'s, most likely 720p capable. My t.v. is 46" and 1080p and with this cable I only notice a small amount of graininess but that is to be expected since the wii is at most capable of 480i (or p??) signal. But at least with this cable I can now get the signal to fill the screen without the picture appearing stretched.

Some people give this cable low marks because they expected that with this cable the signal would be "magically" high def, but remember that the Wii is ONLY capable of a 480 signal. That's all you're going to get. If you want the Wii to be true high def then either find a genie and make some wishes or take some electronics classes at your local tech school because short of that it will never happen.